Saturday, November 28, 2015

Graubrot

The typical German everyday bread: A wheat/rye mix with about equal amounts of the two flour types and made with rye sourdough. There are some variations in the ratio of course, this one is more on the rye side with a little bit of spelt flour to get a slightly more complex flavor; rye sourdough and wheat poolish, very little yeast is added, only to get the wheat poolish started.


Saturday, November 14, 2015

Cracked Up Spelt Bread

An all whole grains bread with sourdough made from cracked wheat. Together with a soaker made with cracked rye there are actually more cracked grains in this bread than there is flour, which is whole grain spelt flour. Also, no additional yeast is added. Which means that the dough has to prove slightly longer than the usual. Decorated with sesame seeds the bread came out less dense than you'd think and is one of my new favorites.